Jethwai village (Jurassic of India)

Where: Rajasthan, India (27.0° N, 70.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 37.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Member (Jaisalmer Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• The main hybodont-yielding horizon is the 15-m-thick Fort Member of Jaisalmer Formation located along the JaisalmerKanod road, about 3 km SE of Jethwai village

Environment/lithology: basin reef; unlithified, sandy lime mudstone

• "Yellowish sandy limestones, marls and brownish intraformational conglomerates (Figure 3B) yielded most of the collection described in this paper. The yellowish limestones and marls in the overlying Badabag Member (Figure 3C) and the uppermost Jajiya Member (Figure 3D) also yielded a few specimens of isolated hybodont teeth."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: K. Kumar, S. Bajpai, P. Pandey, T. Ghosh, and D. Bhattacharya. 2021. Hybodont sharks from the Jurassic of Jaisalmer, western India. Historical Biology 34(6):953-963 [M. Uhen/A. Westbank/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227432: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Allison Westbank on 11.10.2022, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Tharosaurus indicus n. gen. n. sp.
Tharosaurus indicus n. gen. n. sp. Bajpai et al. 2023 dicraeosaurid
RWR-241(A–K)
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Strophodus jaisalmerensis n. sp.
Strophodus jaisalmerensis n. sp. Kumar et al. 2021 elasmobranch